I'm glad I only got the J&J shot way back when it came out and avoided 3+ rounds of Pfizer or Moderna primary and boosters.
Excess mortality is higher now because we're in the middle of a massive rebound of all the other respiratory illnesses (that were stopped by widespread masking and record flu vaccination last year). Also Covid is still around. Omicron has partially "escaped" the updated vaccines (which you should take anyway).
Source for the respiratory illness spike:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/southeast-us-has-hit...
Interesting analysis of the UK's excess mortality published in the BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2524
> Surprisingly, mortality rates in 2022 for most of the 10 leading “underlying” causes of death such as heart disease, stroke, and lung and colorectal cancer have been similar to previous years, or lower than expected. An exception is the rate for “symptoms, signs, and ill defined conditions” (mostly deaths resulting from old age and frailty) which has consistently been higher than expected and also caused the most excess deaths, but not enough to explain the overall excess.4
> However, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ (OHID) analysis of deaths by “any mention” on the death certificate—rather than just the “underlying cause” of death—shows a substantial excess, in particular, of deaths from cardiovascular diseases and diabetes since April,6 prompting an investigation by the Department of Health and Social Care. Growing evidence suggests that covid-19 increases the risk of cardiovascular problems even months after infection,7 which could in part be driving excess deaths. Covid-19 itself remains the sixth leading cause of death, causing 200-400 deaths weekly—a reminder that this virus remains a threat for the foreseeable future.
> Another possibility is that people may not be receiving the care they need from an NHS that was already overstretched pre-pandemic and is now coping with unprecedented backlogs of care and pressures on emergency services. This “crisis” situation has an adverse impact on all patients, but a lack of timely care can be especially life threatening for people with acute cardiovascular problems.
> ONS analysis shows about 3300 excess deaths occurred during the heatwaves experienced in England and Wales between June and August, mostly in older people.8
> ONS also notes that excess deaths can occur following periods when deaths were lower than average, ie, “mortality displacement.”5 Could some of the excess deaths since April reflect the lower ASMRs in early 2022?
I'm also curious about why there's such a difference in relative excess death rates between the US and UK. Currently in the US the weekly death rates are far below what they were in 2020-2021: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Meanwhile for the US and European countries, Covid death and excess death numbers are pretty close.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/world/europe/covid-russia...
> Excess mortality is higher now than during Covid
When did Covid disappear? This year, every week at least 2000 people died of Covid in the US.
> - Influenza, pneumonia magically took a couple of years off during Covid
Have you heard of mask mandates? How do you think they affect the spread of Influenza?
So those tools developed in one tenth of time of the normal tests aren't perfect. Hardly shocking. All tests have intervals of confidence attached, because Science is not magic. Some people never really understood this.
> Blindly combining "of" and "with" Covid cases for cause of death based on those same broken tests.
Either you have a test that works or don't. If they detected covid most of the cases when people had it and failed in the rest, they work. Much better than having no tools at all.
It does not matter if you die directly by a disease or by the sequels of the disease. If people were not dying from covid, this still leads us with the problem that people were dying more often than in normal years. How do we explain it?
If something was proven between 2019 and 2022 is that overreacting saves lives and ignoring the problem kills people. Being conservative and overzelous in the middle of a new unknown pandemic was the correct way to manage it.
> Influenza, pneumonia magically took a couple of years off during Covid
Easily explainable when almost everybody was using masks and social distance in those two years and a proof that masks worked, at least partially.
> PCR testing cycles at extreme highs
I'm unsure about what you want say with that. PCR testing needs to chase an organism that is mutating at extreme highs so they need to change at a high pace. This is how virology works. The tests have a caducity time also, as any other sophisticated chemical reactive used in a lab. "But, but, they got rich!". Yep. A company developping a product in high demand, earn lots of money normally. So what?
> and profits of the pharma companies that coerced unproven, untested, ineffective "cures" that do not prevent infection, spread, or reduce symptoms.
To start, vaccines never claimed to prevent infection.
About spread. Too litle, too late and one step forward, two backward. Negationists and agents actively promoted the disease and deliberately created chaos. People was videotaped deliberately coughing in the face of other after tearing off their masks. The same people were videotaped later directing the mass to commit a coup and trying to sell information from the capitol to Russian agents. None of them where found linked with pharma companies (and is very unlikely that a pharma company would lobby for convincing people to reject pharma products).
Maybe is not really fair to blame pharma for this while forgetting the cultists.
Vaccines really reduced symptoms and saved people. This is true. Is not difficult at all to spot the benefits if you look at the data. Is proven empirically that most of the zillions of people that received the vaccines didn't developped serious collateral effects and died less than the people that rejected them. There are dozens of notorious antivacs videotaped bragging about the "inoffensive" disease, actively trying to caught it and realizing too late that were dying by covid. I agree that the main cause of death here should be stupidity, not covid.
Excess mortality is higher now than during Covid https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-excess-deaths-hi...
There is evidence of statistical lies perpetuated to benefit big pharma.
When all of the broken testing was finally admitted and discontinued, were the previous misclassified deaths reinvestigated or reclassified? Of course not.The entire pool of data of Covid deaths has been poisoned. There is no interest in accuracy. But there does seem to be extreme interest in protecting the liability and profits of the pharma companies that coerced unproven, untested, ineffective "cures" that do not prevent infection, spread, or reduce symptoms.